SLIGO FIELD CLUB Journal Vol. 7
€25.00SLIGO FIELD CLUB
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Is It Four O’Clock Yet
€12.50Twenty-two-year-old teacher Stephen Daly cannot wait to start dating women, drinking copious amounts of alcohol and living life to the full. He had lived at home during his college years and missed out on much of the student experience. He was usually tucked up in his bed while his classmates partied endlessly in student haunts or made out in grotty little flats. Now that he had graduated and secured his first teaching job, he is determined to start a more carefree life and escape the sadness in his background.
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50 Things to Do by the Sea
€15.95DescriptionA beautifully presented, practical gift guide for all surf seekers. Explained with fascinating, easy-to-understand commentary from surfer and scientist Easkey Britton, each guide helps you soak up maximum vitamin sea. The book is divided into six main sections – each filled with exercises, ideas and fun facts to help you reconnect with your oceanic roots and create special moments by the sea…Reading the Sea – watch waves, move with the tides, understand rips and currents, getting to know the sea and your limits. What the Sea Does for Us – appreciate the food, feel-good factors, and even medicines that the sea has to offer. Plus learn about its fundamental role in climate control.
We are Ocean – explore the multi-sensory environment the sea has to offer. The Power of the Sea to Heal – from seaweed and ocean plasma to social change and ocean therapy. The Sea is Calling – try your hand at beach combing, wave play, rockpooling, bird watching, searching for jellyfish and bioluminescence and swimming in the sea.
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A History Of Geevagh 1500-1800
€25.00This Book escribes aspects of the way people in the Geevagh area lived during a period of great economic, social and political change in Ireland.
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Irish Customs and Rituals
€12.50Do you know what a Brideóg is? Why are lone hawthorns unlucky? What does it mean to ‘drown the shamrock’? From the author of The Irish Cottage comes a new book, exploring old Irish customs and beliefs. Chapters focus on the quarter-day festivities that marked the commencement of each season: ‘Spring: Imbolc’; ‘Summer: Bealtaine’; ‘Autumn: Lughnasa’ and ‘Winter: Samhain’, and also major life events — ‘Births, Marriages and Death Customs’ — and general beliefs in ‘Spirituality and Well-Being’ and ‘The Supernatural’. Focusing on the period from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, Irish Customs and Rituals discusses a time during which many of the practices and beliefs in question went into decline. Many of these customs were rooted in residual pre-Christian beliefs that ran parallel to, and in spite of, conventional religion practised in the country. Some customs were so deep-rooted that despite continued disapproval from the Roman Catholic Church they remain with us today. It is wonderful to see so many traditions still with us, as many are worthwhile remembering, commemorating, or even reviving today. Irish Customs and Rituals will appeal to all those with an interest in Irish history, folklore, culture and social history.
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Sligo Field Club Journal Vol 6
€20.00Martin Wilson Presidential
Martin A. Timoney Editorial
Don C.F. Cotton
Peat and wood deposits along the seashore of Co. SligoMartin A. Timoney
Early Bronze Age Cist Grave, Moylough, 1928Martin A. Timoney
Imitative Fert Burials, KnocknashammerBrian Lacey
Cúl Dreimne, Drumcliff and Colum CilleJim Higgins
Some County Sligo Rood LoftsJim Higgins
Medieval Men in Feathered Suits at Sligo AbbeyConor MacHale
Ó Dubhda Family of SligoEamonn P. Kelly
Antiquarian Research in Co. SligoEamonn P. Kelly
Battle of Moytura and the Enchanted ForgeJohn McKeon
Lord Palmerston’s Sligo Town PropertiesPeter Henry
Some Sligo-related Armorial BookplatesJohn Mullaney
V.E. Day 2020Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich
Monasterredan: How Looks Can DeceiveHarry Keaney
Field-names ‘Sketch the Land in Language’Ben Healy
God-out-of-the-BottleRory Callagy
Remembering Des Smith -
To Walk in My Native Place
€20.00To Walk in My Native Place
By Bernadette McCarrick
A book of poems with an accompanying set of photographs on the theme of Native Place.
A coffee table book merging poetry and photography.
“The poems in this collection are a lovingly observed portrait of the poet’s home place. Each poem captures a moment, a place or an event in a language that is evocative yet never sentimental.”
Gerry Boland – September, 2020
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In Nearly Every House
€20.00This book contains biographies along with
black and white photographs featuring
over one hundred traditional musicians
from counties Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon
and Mayo. Through the author’s unique
personal and musical connection to the
musicians of the North Connacht region,
he uses a conversational interview style to
draw out their stories, revealing both the
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Havin’ A Laugh
€15.00At Havin’ a Laugh we are delighted that ‘The Book’ is finally here.
It all started when a group of people who met for a Havin’ A Laugh coffee morning began telling each other funny stories, a book was suggested, and now nine months later we are delighted to be able to share our first book with you!
The Book is a collection of great stories, jokes, poems, art and imagery that will inspire and delight. It’s a wonderful book that you can easily dip in and out of and it would also make a wonderful gift.
All of the amazing content in The Book was submitted by people from Sligo, Leitrim and beyond between the ages of 6 and 94 and proceeds from sales will go directly towards providing life-enhancing activity vouchers for those in mental health recovery.
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You, Me and Destiny
€12.50Danny Keane was dead, but he was unable to cross over to the next world because of anxieties about the mess he was leaving behind for his young wife and others. In a disembodied state, he becomes stuck in a Limbo-like existence. He is intrigued to learn that, in a small minority of cases, and for entirely selfless reasons, it is possible to return to the earthly realm. However, that dispensation comes at a very high price. Danny is prepared to pay that price. The novel charters Danny’s adventures as returns under a different identity and is nothing more than a stranger to the widow, he loved.This life-affirming tale of love and self-discovery celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and its ability to shape our destiny. Poignant but humorous, the novel features characters, who are regular people, coping with what life throws at them. With a little help from above, the extraordinary soon becomes the ordinary as these people negotiate everyday life as well as complex romantic entanglements.
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Ballintober Old Graveyard
€40.00The work of over a hundred stone carvers is analysed here for the first time, over seventy of them identified by signature or initials.
Richly illustrated, this book is a valuable resource not just for the people of Roscommon but a template for memorial study in other counties.
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Golden Days on Coney Island
€25.00Cormac Carty lived on the island from 1945 till 1953 and his memories of those simpler times have now been printed posthumously, following Cormac’s death.
The book is almost like a collection of short stories which covers everything from starting school to journeys on a horse from the island to Knocknarea or bringing cattle to the fair.
Normally, bringing cattle would be a straightforward operation but bringing cows from Coney Island to a fair was nothing short of a very dangerous task.”
“Back then it (the island) was completely isolated and Cormac would have gone into Sligo town once a week to do the shopping and selling things he would have picked ‘The Champion’ up and without fail from cover to cover it would be read out and everyone would be listening for all the news.”
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BITTER WIND
€12.00A Bitter Wind is a ramble through an Ireland of the heart that no longer exists. It takes us on a journey into the secret heart of Irish country life in the 20th century. It depicts too the universal battle of man against the elements.
Unfolded here are the beliefs of ordinary people, their superstitions, customs, fears and joys, their struggle to extract a living from the ruthless extremes of nature on land, sea and shore. In these pages we re-live the adventures of ordinary individuals who, in snatching a livelihood from the forces of nature, lived extraordinary lives.
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LISTOGHIL A SEASONAL ALIGNMENT
€10.00Does the modern festival of Halloween, with its traditions of flying witches, games of chance and haunted by ghosts, have its roots in the Stone Age?
Researcher Padraig Meehan explores the possibility that the turning points marking seasonal change were intentionally marked in the central monument at the Carrowmore passage tomb complex in County Sligo.
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